*DNFed at 25%

The writing style in the one was a bit odd for me to get into, but I was intrigued by everything else in the story enough to move past it. It was the presence of an explicit sexual scene being thrown in that made me DNF. I don’t do that anyway, but it also jumpscared me in a way that I don’t think I’ve ever experienced before… so, yeah, no. Not for me.

Rilla didn’t carry the story of this novel very well at all, I thought. I didn’t mind her character necessarily, but she did not feel like a main protagonist to me very much at all.

Also, the age gap between her and Kenneth made me quite grossed anytime their “romance” was mentioned… I know “it was a different time”, but when they kissed about halfway through the book, Rilla was 17 and Ken was 22. I don’t care, that makes me uncomfortable at a base level and I’ll die on that hill.

Besides these two main issues with the story, it also was just very depressing to read, imo. Which is so incredibly uncharacteristic of AOGG that it really quite frustrated me.

All in all, my childhood decision to never read past AOGG was perhaps the best one I ever made?? Save for Anne of Avonlea, each of the books gets progressively worse imo. An absolutely insane ending to my AOGG saga. No one could have predicted this outcome. 💔

*DNFed at 7%

This might seem like a premature DNF, but I immediately can’t stand the main character and the writing style is not something I’m enjoying either. I’ve been trying to get myself to read 50 more pages before I decide to DNF for the last 3 days and I’m over it. Why am I forcing myself to read stuff that I don’t like?

Is this what all of Brandon Sanderson’s books are like? At least as far as the writing style? Because I’m not impressed off the bat…